Urban Foxes

As foxes are a part of the urban landscape, particularly in London, I thought I would start a thread (couldn’t find another. Please delete/merge if appropriate).

Any stories, pictures, complaints etc, please post.

I’ll start. Following on from a couple of previous posts (one, two) in The Cat Thread here are a few pics of a vixen and her cub that are staying under our shed. First spotted a week and a half ago, this morning is the third time we’ve seen them.

They are incredibly cute and are quite exciting to watch when they appear during the day which seems to be around 7am at the moment. Were only ‘outside’ for about 5 minutes before disappearing.

We are a little worried about the mother attacking our cats so have our fingers crossed there are no issues.

Will post more as the cub grows older (hopefully the photography improves as I go along!).

That's fantastic, she looks like a relatively unmangy one. I have a green roof on my shed, with lots of long grasses planted in it. There were a couple of Foxes that used to regularly sleep up there in the day. They were pretty bold, you could work in the shed and they'd stay up there.

a few years back had cubs in the garden and started to feed them with old scraps from the local butcher
not as cute and small as the op but still lovely creatures

This fella occasionally breaks into our block of flats and takes up position on the neighbour's chair. He's great.

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I have one or two snaps from my garden.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36707747@N07/albums/72157646783181960/page1

https://www.flickr.com/photos/36707747@N07/albums

Nice idea for a thread. We seem to be getting a lot of fox traffic at the moment so hopefully can get some photos... Its amazing how bold they can be. There used to be a massive one that hung-out in our front yard and wouldn't even budge if we went out.

Awesome! We had a mother and 3 cubs in next doors garden last year (the owner is never in so they were totally relaxed) and they used to come play in our garden when they got bigger. Our cat didn't like it but they used to just stare at each other, no scraps or fights ever.
This year I've noticed the gap under our decking and shed has been dug out and spotted another large fox a few times, so hoping there's another lot of cubs coming soon.
We don't feed them as we don't want to encourage begging or dependency on us, but all the foxes round us seem very healthy so they must be doing alright. Noticed we've had a few egg shells left on the lawn recently so they're clearly nabbing them from the chicken coop a few doors down the road.

Those are amazing photos. They must be incredibly normalised to humans to let you get some of those.

My friends in Chiswick have got a house fox, she was an orphan and was homed with them by a local fox rescue organisation... Couldn't go back in the wild so they kept her... Gets on very well with their cat, very cute...

My butcher in Brixton always had a big bag of bones for our garden foxes when we lived in the place with the big garden, loved them so much... They were so tame, cubs were incredibly cute...

aaawwwwwwwwwwww

House fox? Can they be trained?

Do you even Soviet Union, bro?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox

There's a massive pack of them over at my old place on the Aylesbury Estate. There's a square of buildings with a piece of inaccessible land in the middle that they live on, my garden backed onto it. Awoke one morning to see 6 of them bouncing on next door's trampoline. Very noisy, lost a lot of sleep.

Had cubs under our shed when I lived in Ladywell, cute little fluffy things. Current place have only seen one running across our back wall a few days ago. I suspect they mainly live in Burgess Park where I am. Saw one being chased by crows in there a few weeks back.

Loving that the Urban Foxes thread is currently next to the Vulpine Clothing thread, as least until I hit Post Reply...

We have a family that lives in the derelict ground behind our flats between West Norwood and Streatham. Unfortunately my neighbour has found tree of them dead recently, and suspects that someone's poisoned them, which is illegal.

Yup. My mates dad had one way back when. Used to follow him all over the place and even defend him when he got into shit (he had a colourful history). Eventually he moved to the country and the fox just went its way.

Foxes often sleep on the roof outside my bedroom window. It's so nice, they don't really see/notice me. Really nice to wake up to.
Sorry the pic is crappy I should buy a camera...oops file too big :(

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Sounds like it should be a film.

Love them, ace as fuck. Used to have one in our garden years back in Brixton, used to feed it scraps and it would get within 5/6yrds before stopping and waiting for you to drop it.

Got a load in the undergrowth at the back and side of our house now, can hear them shreaking and screaming in the night...if you shine a torch out the window you can often catch their bright eyes

Superb pics 👏🏼

Can you embed FB video on here? I should post the video I took of last year's puppies.

'Cubs'

This one really, really wanted to get out of my eyeline - every time he or she thought that they'd managed it they came straight in toward me:

For context I was sitting on the grass outside my block of flats, my feeling at the time was that the fox wanted to try for a bite of me if it could do so.